About FAFPI
Learn more about FAFPI
Companies and organisations might encounter situations where facilitation payments are requested. It can happen during business activities such as crossing borders, obtaining licences and permits, transporting goods, or applying for services. Learn about FAFPI’s mission to address these challenges.
Often, the payments are small amounts demanded by a government official to expedite a routine process to which the organisation is already legally entitled without the payment.
Despite the relatively small amounts demanded each time, the cumulative demands for facilitation payments represent a significant sum harmful to the organisation.
Additionally, these demands pose a long-term threat to economic health and governance. They perpetuate a culture of corruption that can escalate into major corrupt acts.
However, individual companies and organisations often have very limited leverage to fight and oppose these demands successfully.
The Initiative represents a collective response to the frustration experienced by companies and organisations unable to address facilitation payments alone.
Its members work to change the game’s rules by establishing robust internal policies within companies and organisations and collecting data on the instances of facilitation payment demands.
This data constitutes the evidence needed to persuade relevant authorities and civil society stakeholders to change the game and eliminate these demands.
FAFPI's Mission
Gather data, gain knowledge and increase awareness by bringing together key stakeholders in collective action.
FAFPI's Vision
Be the flagship initiative contributing to a world without facilitation payments – where organisations, society and individuals no longer bear the cost of this corrupt practice.
FAFPI consists of two parts:
Knowledge Sharing and Capacity Building
Members exchange experience and best practice on fighting facilitation payments through a collaborative effort among multiple stakeholders.
Data Collection
Members report the demands for facilitation payments they meet and build an aggregated dataset through the FAFPI reporting tool.
An increasing number of international organisations are actively taking a stand against facilitation payments
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Join FAFPI in making a dent in the issue of facilitation payments
Join the Fight Against Facilitation Payments Initiative
Join FAFPI and contribute to a world free from facilitation payments, where organizations, society, and individuals no longer bear the cost of this corrupt practice. By collecting data, sharing knowledge, and raising awareness, you become part of a collective effort to make a dent in this issue.
